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There’s another leak of NSA hacking tools and data from the Shadow Brokers. This one includes a list of hacked sites. According to analyses from researchers here and here, Monday’s dump contains 352 distinct IP addresses and 306 domain names that purportedly have been hacked by the NSA. The timestamps included in the leak indicate … Read More “Another Shadow Brokers Leak” »
Former NSA attorneys John DeLong and Susan Hennessay have written a fascinating article describing a particular incident of oversight failure inside the NSA. Technically, the story hinges on a definitional difference between the NSA and the FISA court meaning of the word “archived.” (For the record, I would have defaulted to the NSA’s interpretation, which … Read More “Intelligence Oversight and How It Can Fail” »
The NSA has another contractor who stole classified documents. It’s a weird story: “But more than a month later, the authorities cannot say with certainty whether Mr. Martin leaked the information, passed them on to a third party or whether he simply downloaded them.” So maybe a potential leaker. Or a spy. Or just a … Read More “NSA Contractor Arrested for Stealing Classified Information” »
News here and here. Other companies have been quick to deny that they did the same thing, but I generally don’t believe those carefully worded statements about what they have and haven’t done. We do know that the NSA uses bribery, coercion, threat, legal compulsion, and outright theft to get what they want. We just … Read More “Yahoo Scanned Everyone's E-mails for the NSA” »
Both are worth reading. Powered by WPeMatico
The National Security Agency is lying to us. We know that because of data stolen from an NSA server was dumped on the Internet. The agency is hoarding information about security vulnerabilities in the products you use, because it wants to use it to hack others’ computers. Those vulnerabilities aren’t being reported, and aren’t getting … Read More “The NSA Is Hoarding Vulnerabilities” »
The NSA was badly hacked in 2013, and we’re just now learning about it. A group of hackers called “The Shadow Brokers” claim to have hacked the NSA, and are posting data to prove it. The data is source code from “The Equation Group,” which is a sophisticated piece of malware exposed last year and … Read More “Major NSA/Equation Group Leak” »
Some minimal information about the NSA’s abilities to hack networks via submarine. Powered by WPeMatico
Disaster stories involving the Internet of Things are all the rage. They feature cars (both driven and driverless), the power grid, dams, and tunnel ventilation systems. A particularly vivid and realistic one, near-future fiction published last month in New York Magazine, described a cyberattack on New York that involved hacking of cars, the water system, … Read More “Real-World Security and the Internet of Things” »